8:20 PM,
May 22, 2013

Written by

Mark Spivey
| @mark_spivey

More than 125 people flocked to Plainfield Public Library Wednesday night for an anticipated Democratic mayoral primary debate between incumbent Plainfield Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs and challenger Adrian Mapp - but the mayor wasn't among those present.

"We don't have empty-chair debates," Plainfield League of Women Voters representative Pat Turner Kavanagh explained, moments before the building started emptying around 7:30 p.m.

The mayor's longtime administrative aide, Barbara James, said she asked to read a two-paragraph statement by Robinson-Briggs shortly before ...